I had once wanted to do a private film streaming within my own private Discord server, but a japanese in the group objected to it, saying that Discord TOS did not allow us to stream films, and if we did that would be piracy.

I encounter plenty of anti-piracy nerds day-to-day. What makes this dude so special it warrants handwaving their whole country? My brother complained about piracy for a time I downloaded a movie to watch in a place without broadband. I finally bought a digital copy on Google Play just to shut him up about it.

These dweebs are absolutely everywhere.

a Japanese

The most anti-piracy people I know are all white

using google like a social media website and furiously typing in "emulator illegal" into the search bar to make my voice heard

Source: I was on a Discord with a Japanese dude

Ahh the Japanese!

Anyone who thinks Japanese people always follow rules should take a short drive on the highway system, especially in Tokyo where doing 80 in a 50 zone is extremely common. Afterwards they can drive the surface roads and count the number of illegally parked cars illegally idling with engines on.

エミュレーター　違法 is now only the 4th auto-complete suggestion. The first is エミューレーターとは (What is an emulator?) I guess there's been a sudden surge of lawlessness in Japan.

As someone who has played a couple Yakuza games, i consider myself very familiar with Japanese culture. Most people's days involve getting in random fist fights while walking between caberet clubs, restaurants, Club SEGA arcades, underground cage fighting arenas, and karaoke joints

I'm pretty sure there's some variant of "are emulators illegal" in search engine auto completes no matter what language you search in.

but a Japanese in the group

When someone uses $ethnicity without the word person or equivalent following it up, you can just feel the racism oozing from their very soul.

but a Japanese in the group objected

This phrasing kinda has similar vibes to someone insistently calling trans people “the transgenders.” It’s such a weird, petty way to signal bigotry and ignorance.

Yes that was a cringe comment so who knows if the story is true.

But regarding the point over piracy it is not entire impossible, you know Japan is one of the places where they will criminaly persecute people for piracy and I totaly understand, specialy if you're not particularly tech savvy, someone become paranoid over being put into some random criminal "investigation" for watching pirated shit on Discord.

The part about "Japanese culture" aside, the discord story is plausible to me as pathetic as it sounds.

Dude 100% watched youtube history videos and anime and concluded he knew everything

"A Japanese"

weebs genuenly treat japanese like they are a different species, it's wild.

Is this Sean Connery, noted expert on Japan from the 1993 action thriller film Rising Sun?

discord guy sounds like a massive fucking nerd ngl

just tell them you bought a license